Category: China

Employee of Defense Contractor Convicted of Exporting Sensitive Military Technology to China

FBI, 26 September 2012 Former Employee of New Jersey Defense Contractor Convicted of Exporting Sensitive Military Technology to China; Stole Trade Secrets from Morris County Company NEWARK—A federal jury today convicted a former employee of a New Jersey-based defense contractor of exporting sensitive U.S. military technology to the People’s Republic of China (PRC), stealing trade […]

Insider Threat: Chicago engineer arrested for stealing trade secrets

Former CME Group Software Engineer Pleads Guilty to Stealing Globex Computer Trade Secrets While Planning to Improve Electronic Trading in China (FBI, 19 Sept 12) CHICAGO—A former senior software engineer for Chicago-based CME Group Inc. pleaded guilty today to theft of trade secrets for stealing computer source code and other proprietary information while at the […]

Case Closure: Insider Threat Hanjuan Jin Gets 4 Years in Prison

Finally a closure to the Hanjuan Jin espionage case, an Insider Threat who worked at Motorola. I love this quote by the judge during sentencing: “It is a technical world that we live in, and the most important thing this country can do is protect its trade secrets.” Motorola trade secrets thief gets 4-year term […]

Two Chinese Nationals Charged with Stealing Trade Secrets in Missouri

Chinese ECONOMIC ESPIONAGE in the Heartland of our Country: From United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri: KANSAS CITY, Mo. – David M. Ketchmark, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced two Chinese nationals were charged in federal court today with attempting to pay $100,000 for stolen trade secrets from Pittsburgh Corning […]

Guard at US Consulate in China admits effort to sell classified info and access

INSIDER THREAT: An American selling America out for $3 million: Bryan Underwood 32 years old (born 1980) Former US Marine Civilian security guard at the US consulate in Guangzhou, China Held Top Secret security clearance Lost $170,000 in the stock market Tried to volunteer to China’s intelligence service to be a spy for money “His greed […]

United Technologies acknowledges coverup of sale of military software to China

Outrageous! United Technologies acknowledges coverup of sale of military software to China (Washington Post) United Technologies, a major defense contractor, and two of its subsidiaries on Thursday acknowledged covering up the illicit sale of sensitive military software to China — technology that the country later used to develop its first attack helicopter. Federal prosecutors announced […]

China-linked economic espionage is on the rise

Important takeaways from this article in the San Francisco Chronicle about Chinese economic espionage against the US. Also see below for an excerpt from a new DOD/DOS report about China acquiring US high technology. • U.S. corporations have lost more than $13 billion because of spying, and that’s  just for cases now under FBI investigation. — […]

Travel “Electronically Naked” to China

“Everybody knows that if you are doing business in China, in the 21st century, you don’t bring anything with you. That’s ‘Business 101’ — at least it should be.” — Jacob Olcott, a cybersecurity expert at Good Harbor Consulting From the New York Times: When Kenneth G. Lieberthal, a China expert at the Brookings Institution, […]

China’s Cyber Thievery Is National Policy—And Must Be Challenged

An Op-Ed in the Wall Street Journal written by Mike McConnell, Michael Chertoff and William Lynn Mr. McConnell, a retired Navy vice admiral and former director of the National Security Agency (1992-96) and director of national intelligence (2007-09), is vice chairman of Booz Allen Hamilton. Mr. Chertoff, a former secretary of homeland security (2005-09), is […]

Chinese hacker attacks

Today’s Wall Street Journal has an article about Chinese cyber spying (U.S. Homes In on China Spying). According to the article, the US has been able to identify the groups in China responsible for cyber attacks, and that these groups are sponsored by the People’s Liberation Army. Two weeks ago US officials confronted their Chinese […]

China’s Spies Are Catching Up

A recent op-ed in the New York Times by intelligence author and historian David Wise whose most recent book is the highly recommended “Tiger Trap: America’s Secret Spy War with China.”   IN 1995, a middle-aged Chinese man walked into a C.I.A. station in Southeast Asia and offered up a trove of secret Chinese documents. Among […]

China’s non-government economic espionage against US companies

From The Diplomat, 11 December 2011: With each week seeming to bring with it a new example of a cyber attack launched from China, the issue has in many minds become inextricably linked with the Chinese government. And with China’s state-owned firms dominating the country’s economic landscape – and with Beijing’s apparent willingness to protect […]

China #1 Country for ‘Sexpionage’

Brian McAdam said countries have been using sex to gather intel for over 1,000 years, and it hasn’t slowed a bit. “Many countries are still carrying on sexpionage, and the number one country is China.” This statement was made by a former Canadian diplomat at a recent security conference in Canada about defending against espionage. Attendees […]

Losses from intellectual property espionage: a trillion dollars a year

NPR published a recent article called, “China’s Cyber Threat A High-Stakes Spy Game.” Here are some interesting points: How to travel to China: “I first of all get a loaner laptop. And the USB that I bring, I clean digitally before I bring it, so it’s totally blank,” Lieberthal says. Lieberthal then disconnects the Wi-Fi and […]

Trusted insider charged with corporate espionage

An local ABC TV news station in Chicago is reporting on a recent case of 2009 Cornell University graduate Yihao Ben Pu, a 24-year-old man holding both a US and Chinese passport who “was once a trusted technology employee at Citadel Investments, once of the world’s largest hedge fund managers. Pu is charged with attempting to […]

Chinese National Pleads Guilty to Economic Espionage

From ABC News, 18 Oct 2011: A Chinese national has pleaded guilty to economic espionage for providing trade secrets from agricultural firms Dow and Cargill to the Chinese government. Kexue Huang, pleaded guilty to one charge of economic espionage before a federal judge in Indiana, admitting that while he worked at Dow AgroSciences LLC and […]